Counterparties

By Nick Rizzo

September 7, 2011

Despite the launch today of Counterparties.com — which you really should check out, if you haven’t already — we’ll continue doing a (near) daily Counterparties post here. This will consist of some of the links from Counterparties.com, organized into paragraphs and themes, plus perhaps a few unique to this blog. Or perhaps we’ll do something different; we’re still experimenting. What do you think we should do?

The Swiss National Bank is determined to prevent their massively-appreciating currency from getting any more expensive.

Ever wanted to know more about the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm (with an emphasis on the “private”) targeted by Michael Moore? Here’s their IPO filing.

And today wasn’t a great day for women at the tops of large corporations. Sallie Krawcheck, Bank of America’s head of global wealth and investment management and one of the most powerful women in the finance industry, is out of a job. So is Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, who emailed every Yahoo employee to inform them she’d just been fired by phone. The WSJ tweeted that Yahoo stock was up more than 6% in after-hours trading on the news, while rapper Snoop Dogg tweeted his willingness to be the new Yahoo CEO.